DEATH OF MADAME HANAU
RECKLESS SPECULATOR .'. . PARIS, July 19. Following attempted suicide, Madame Hanau, who was involved in the famous Gazette du Franc scandal of 1930, ruining thousands, died in the infirmary of Freshes gaol, aged 50, after serving successive terms of imprisonment. She had occupied a carpeted, book-lined cell like a lawyer's office, in the State prison, whence a lady's maid, bluffing two warders, assisted her to escape through the window by means of knotted blankets. Later she gave herself up. The Governor dismissed the warders and placed Madame Hanau in the cell previously occupied by ■ the famous woman war spy, Mata Hari.
Though hunger strikes and a motor accident impaired her health, she founded two financial papers while on bail. Her last sentence was three years, imposed in 1934. Her divorced husband and ex-partner, Bloch, died last year.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22629, 22 July 1935, Page 9
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